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1
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biology

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the study of living things

2
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who coined the term biology

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Lamarck in 1802

3
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what 2 disciplines studied living things before the mid 19th century

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medicine and natural history

4
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what is the broadest and most integrative discipline

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history- attempts to understand the human past

5
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subdivisions of history

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political, military, economic, biography, social, art

6
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what 2 factors can intellectual history be understood on

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both physical objects to study and written records

  1. Internal factors: how ideas change looking largely at dynamics of ideas and implications of these ideas
  2. external factors: environment in which idea fluorishes, factors beyond discipline itself
7
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why study history

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  1. intellectual curioisity
  2. to expand ones imagination
  3. to use the past as a guide to our actions in the future
  4. to connect with the past on an emotional or spirtual level
  5. guilty pleasure
8
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4 reccuring questions

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  1. what living things are there in the world and how do they interact
  2. where do organisms come from
  3. how do organisms work
  4. why do offspring resemble their parents and why are they different
9
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why is it difficult to identify and catalog living things

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  • invisibility
  • interpretation: fossils
  • definition: how do you define life
  • numbers: finding every number of a species
  • evidence: unicorns were accepted
10
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BC/AD system

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BC = before christ 
AD = Anno domini (year of our Lord)
11
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BCE/CE system

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BCE = before common erra (same as BC)
CE = common era (same as AD)